Margot Lovejoy & Victoria Vesna 
Context Providers 
Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts

Blurring boundaries between many disciplines, Context Providers supplies a context and a rationale for discussing how technological change has affected the function of art, the role of the artist, and the way artistic productions are disseminated. It also explores how technologically networked environments increase the need for flexible information filters as a framework for establishing meaning. Moreover, Context Providers considers the work of media artists who are directly engaging the scientific community through collaboration and active dialogue.Context Providers will appeal to art historians, theorists and curators, as well as art administrators, grant providers and those studying both practice and theory in media arts.

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Introduction


 


PART ONE


 


Defining Conditions For Digital Arts: Social Function, Authorship, and Audience – Margot Lovejoy


 


Missing In Action: Agency and Meaning In Interactive Art – Kristine Stiles and Edward A. Shanken


 


Collaborative Systems: Redefining Public Art – Sharon Daniel


 


Play, Participation, and Art: Blurring the Edges – Mary Flanagan


 


PART TWO


 


Contextual Networks: Data, Identity, and Collective Production – Christiane Paul


 


Aesthetics of Information Visualization – Warren Sack


 


Identity Operated In New Mode: Context and Body/Space/Time – Marina Gržinić


 


Game Engines As Creative Frameworks – Robert F. Nideffer


 


Mapping the Collective – Sara Diamond


 


PART THREE 


 


Shifting Media Contexts: When Scientific Labs Become Art Studios – Victoria Vesna


 


Biotechnical Art and the Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm – Anna Munster


 


Working With Wetware – Ruth G. West


 


Defining Life: Artists Challenge Conventional Classifications – Ellen K. Levy


 


Art and Science Research: Active Contexts and Discourses – Jill Scott and Daniel Bisig

Over de auteur

Margot Lovejoy is professor emerita of visual arts at SUNY Purchase and the author of Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age.
Christiane Paul is adjunct curator of new media arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art and director of Intelligent Agent, a service organization dedicated to digital art.
Victoria Vesna is a media artist and professor in the Department of Design and Media Arts at the UCLA School of the Arts. She is also director of the UCLA Art|Sci center and the UC Digital Arts Research Network.